Slaughtering

meat packing

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The basic slaughtering process.

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Diagram of Temple Grandin’s conveyor system for humane animal processing. Among Grandin’s innovations are the nonslip entrance ramp, the leg-spreader bar, a solid false floor, and a solid hold-down rack, all of which are intended to prevent panic response in animals bound for slaughter.

contribution by

Grandin

...a factor that allowed her to maintain long-term visual memory. This aspect was vital to her main career focus—designing humane livestock facilities that would eliminate pain and fear from the
slaughtering process. Her designs enabled workers to move animals without frightening them. She also maintained that her acute visualization could be harnessed in making design decisions regarding...

Swift

...shifted. Swift felt that meatpacking would be more profitable than meat selling if a method could be devised for shipping fresh meat from Chicago to the East, instead of sending live cattle to be slaughtered on arrival, as was the custom. He therefore hired an engineer to design a refrigerator car; the finished design circulated fresh air that was chilled by passing it over ice. In 1877 Swift...

processing of

livestock

The slaughter of livestock involves three distinct stages: preslaughter handling, stunning, and
slaughtering. In the United States the humane treatment of animals during each of these stages is required by the Humane Slaughter Act.